Ron Paul's Surprising Third Quarter Fund Raising Total

Ron Paul raised $5.1 million in the 3rd quarter. According to a story by Jim Kuhnhenn of the AP

The amount places Paul well ahead of all but the Republican front-runners in the race. His fundraising for the quarter almost matches what Sen. John McCain is expected to report. His total is half the amount that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is reported to have raised.

How the hell does somebody who only polls at 2% of the Republicans nationally raise nearly as much as a Republican front runner and more than enough to remain competative with the Republican big boys? Well more that 70% of Paul's contributions have been raised online.

This video is of a Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room interview with Paul. I guess money talks to the networks.

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John McCain Forgets That People Fact Check

TPM's Ben Craw did a little fact checking following John McCain's latest appearance on Meet The Press. Take a look if you want to know what Ben found.




This is exactly why the "YouTube" election is going to be the most liberating in history. Little blog based news organizations like TPM now have access to a whole lot of video tape and are motivated to watch it. The Internet gives them the ability to deliver what they find to the public. It seems that the stranglehold of the major news networks is just about broken. People don't have to watch OJ stories any more. Instead they can watch old men caught in embarrassing contradictions and inconsistencies without the loving protection of a Tim Russert or a Wolf Blitzer to shield them and the rest of us from the truth.

In this case, John McCain has simply gotten old. He can no longer remember what he said or heard just last week. It happens to all of us sooner or later. I honor McCain for his service to America, but at some point even the best of us have to call it a career.

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Moore v. Blitzer

Take a little time and give this a look. Michael Moore pounds on Wolf Blitzer. The second installment is supposed to be aired this evening at 7:00 PM Eastern.



Here is a link to Michael Moore's rebuttal to Sanjay Gupta's piece.

Maybe they should hold a cage match.

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Michael Moore Takes Down Wolf Blitzer and CNN

I waited all night for the full video to come out on YouTube, but so far it hasn't. I want to direct you to RawStory. Watch the video of Wolf Blitzer's interview of Michael Moore at the bottom. When I watched it last night it was completely unedited. It runs about 10:00. Moore's take down of Wolf Blitzer, Sanji Gupta and the rest of Corporate News Network is classic.

I would direct you to the CNN version, but it has been edited.

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